Humankind on PC (via Steam)

The bug: Typical: I am on a continent with just one other empire (AI player). There is ample room everywhere and sufficient resources for everyone. The AI puts its cities smack next to mine, occupies territories adjacent to me, even so on bad territories with no resource, apparently just to disallow me to expand or join territories. Making it impossible to expand let alone play without declaring war.

Expected behavior: AI empires should at least start well away from the human player. I understand it that the AI settles 'into my general direction' to grab strategic territories, and moves slowly towards me. I do the same, so that's OK. But AI should not on purpose grab specifically territories to ‘choke’ the player into not being able to expand at all. This is not realistic and has no entertainment value. The AI can settle a whole continent, but no, they only settle smack next to me. No human opponent would play that way.